I tried to update the AniAlley Champagne Room with a Christmas pic and ended up hosing the whole darn thing. MAL has bizarre code running in the background. It converts certain pieces of BBcode into HTML and removes and embeds some of your text. Anyways, I've patched it up and have saved a copy of the stuff that works in a file on my laptop. That'll save me having to spend 45 minutes rebuilding the page.

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie

Anybody been on MAL lately? Is it me, or does that site just get worse and worse each time I go there? The blog section used to have interesting things to read, now it's mostly spambots. Not to mention pop-up ads.

I've been on to check on our mostly quiet Anime Alley group and make the occasional update. Never did frequent the blog section. I've noticed a few of the oldtimers on some of the clubs I used to frequent have gone off line from MAL.

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie

Given the lack of activity I doubt we'd pick up any new members that way but I've set it to be a public group nonetheless. In general I've found our outlying groups to be extremely poor recruitment tools.

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie

Got a friend request from a total stranger. Since I don't frequent MAL that often these days I said "What the heck...why not" and added the person. Turns out the person had traced me from my last.fm profile.

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie

Came across this on MAL: "...her brain ran away". Quasi-priceless MAL factoid about the titular character of a show called "Francesca" which is supposed to promote Hokkaido. I suppose the Governor probably would've said, "No thanks. We're not that desperate for help to promote our island". I'm still going to check out this show though.

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie

MAL is kind of back. One can't do much other than log on and update ones account. Main database entries for shows are displayable. Most everything else is off limits. That includes clubs. I presume messaging is not available too.

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie

I was cleaning out my e-mail inbox when I came across an old phishing e-mail using my MAL account which I hadn't noticed at all. I've changed my username and password so best of luck to those dum dums....

"Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." - Hugh Laurie